Patrick Magee

Patrick Magee (1951-) was a Provisional IRA militant during The Troubles and the bomber in the Brighton hotel bombing of 12 October 1984, in which the IRA failed to assassinate the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Biography
Patrick Magee was born in 1951 in Belfast, Northern Ireland to a Catholic Irish family. His family moved to Norwich in East Anglia, England in 1955, but Magee returned to Belfast in 1971 before joining the Provisional IRA militant group during "The Troubles". From June 1973 to December 1975, he was held in extrajudicial detention by the United Kingdom as a suspected terrorist, and in 1981 he potted to avenge the deaths of five inmates in the 1981 Irish hunger strikes by assassinating Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. On 12 October 1984, Magee planted a bomb in the bathroom wall of his room at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, but the bombing failed to kill Thatcher. On 22 June 1985, he was arrested in Glasgow, Scotland while planning more bombings, and he was sentenced to eight life sentences in September 1986. However, he was released in 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement, and he expressed remorse for the loss of innocent lives, meeting with the daughter of one of the victims of the Brighton hotel bombing over one hundred times.